Module 1

Projects in this module: Team Presentations, WebQuest Part 1 (text), Student Sample including Rubrics (product and presentation)

Classroom Management Tips and Tricks


--Date--
--What we will do in class today--
--What you need to have completed before coming to class today--

M

2/28
Snow Day
  • set up a delicious account if you haven't already
  • Finish Fires in the Bathroom while you're in the schools. Write a QR for each chapter (you'll have a total of 10 blog entries for Fires in the Bathroom) OR tackle the alternative assignment

T

3/1
Ed Center 106
12:00-1:40
(40 minutes short)
  1. Welcome to Module 1!
  2. 3 week schedule
  3. your insights from the self-reflection on MEL
  4. opportunity to improve your MEL product--deadline this Friday
  5. MEL Conclusion
  6. history of educational technology
  7. Intel CD
  8. figuring out Blackboard
  9. Team Presentation details
  10. what is "a digital presence" for your Team Presentation?
  11. Maine Memory Network samples
  12. MMN homework due in 1 week
  13. reminder about digital story
  14. resources for team presentations

W

3/2
Happy Texas Independence Day
9:15-11:30
(5 minutes short)
  1. delicious checkup, adding Firefox add-ons for delicious
  2. discuss copyright and fair use homework
  3. respecting intellectual property
  4. "What is a WebQuest?"
  5. starting your EDU 221 glossary
  6. uploading your CM comic and your syllabus audio recording
  7. CM tips and tricks collection
  8. details of the 3-2-1
  9. team building (food, a handshake, and a code word) & team name
  10. any special needs for team presentations? (assign homework? presentation order preference? location preference--Computer Lab or Ed Center 112? . . . email me)

Th

3/3
12:30-1:40
(40 minutes short)
  1. rearrange schedule again
    1. Smartboard team . . . new mtg. time
  2. introduction to WebQuests
  3. brief intro to student sample of unit performance task>
    1. What It Is, Hamlet
  • read the "Humor" article handed out in class on Wednesday

F

3/4
Computer Center 104
9:15-12:00
(25 minutes over)
  1. hand in WebQuest reviews
  2. brief intro to student sample of unit performance task
    1. Pirate Prezi
  3. Type I vs. Type II on student sample
  4. thoughts on humor article?
  5. powerful rubrics -- peer feedback
  6. conclusion activity
  7. posting your WebQuest text on the class wiki--GRASPS, intro, task and conclusion
  • (work on rubrics)
  • finish WebQuest reviews started in class
  • bring printouts of your 2 rubrics to class



M

3/7
  1. Time in Computing Center for your team to work together on Emerging Technology Presentation
  2. Time in Computing Center for you to work on student sample with technical support and moral support from colleagues

W

3/9
  1. Time in Computing Center for your team to work together on Emerging Technology Presentation
  2. Time in Computing Center for you to work on student sample with technical support and moral support from colleagues
  • post your WebQuest text on the class artifacts wiki

F

3/11
  1. Time in Computing Center for your team to work together on Emerging Technology Presentation
  2. Time in Computing Center for you to work on student sample with technical support and moral support from colleagues

M

3/14
Computer Center 104
9:15-12:00
Class 1
(25 minutes over)
  1. feedback sandwich
  2. Emerging Technology Team Presentations
  • your Team Presentation should be ready to go! (including digital presence)
  • Wait until after all the teams' presentation, then electronically fill out the Team Presentation Self Evaluation and email it to Dr. Theresa by 2pm Tuesday (tomorrow)

M

3/14
CR 123
12:30-2:20
Class 2
(30 minutes short) [ooops! moved to Ed Center 006]
  1. another look at your MEL judge's feedback--1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person
  2. feedback sandwich
  3. student sample presentations
  4. late start Wednesday
  • student sample should be linked to class artifacts wiki
  • bring printouts of your 2 rubrics to class and turn in to Dr. Theresa right before it's your turn to present
  • bring a printout of your student sample to turn in to Dr. Theresa right before it's your turn to present
    • bring a full printout of all pages (black and white is fine) if it's a wiki, e-book, Comic Life, etc
    • bring a storyboard/transcript of your student sample if it's an iMovie, GarageBand, etc. AND include a listing of any text that appears on the screen of your movie/mp3/m4a
    • if your student sample has no visible text, you don't have to bring anything to class

W

3/16
Class 1
9:45-11:30
Computing Center 104
(20 minutes short)
  1. refining your delicious account
  2. review room arrangement assignment to do while in the classroom (follow-up to Chapter 1)
  3. 3-2-1
  4. contribute at least 2 items to the CM Tips And Tricks Collection based on observations or conversations in the field, your own experience in the field, Fires in the Bathroom, . . . [due by end of week 1 of module 2]
  5. look at double highlighter homework
  6. another look at Type I and Type II with input from the experts (you)
  • Wait until after all the teams' presentation, then electronically fill out the Team Presentation Self Evaluation and email it to Dr. Theresa by 2pm Tuesday (yesterday)
  • read chapter 1 of Classroom Management textbook (no work to turn in for class, just read it and be ready to discuss it)

F

3/18
9:15-12:00
Computing Center 104
(25 minutes over)
Happy Last Day of Module 1
  1. 21st Century Skills--what are they?
  2. diversity activity
  3. Add one new software (Inspiration) to Type I, Type II document
  4. uploading your CM comic and your syllabus audio recording
  • do double highlighter exercise of chapter 2 of Classroom Management textbook
  • fill out Type I and Type II examples of blog, wiki, movie software, audio software, comic software on the TypeITypeIISp11 document that you started in class Wednesday

F

3/18
Class 2
Ed Center 111
12:30-2:20
(30 minutes short)
  1. revisiting student samples, rubrics, and WebQuest texts -- works in progress
  2. How's your Facebook status?
  3. does this describe you? where will you be in 5 years? what about your students? your students in 10 years
  4. chapter 2 debriefing and intro to next assignment
  5. review Classroom Management Chapter project and what to do while in the classroom
  6. sign up for Classroom Management teams
  7. what to expect in Module 2

Things to do while you're in the field:
  • room arrangement assignment
  • watch for CM Tips And Tricks that you could contribute to the class collection
  • possibly do your Classroom Management Chapter interview
  • possibly create your Classroom Management "Table of Contents" and get it approved by Dr. Theresa